Sakai
Sakai Rishonomori
On Sen no Rikyu and the poet Akiko Yosano, both born here; tea is served in a copy of Rikyu's own room.
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Sakai
Sakai Blades
Sakai mass-produced the first Japanese guns; that forging skill turned into knives, and most professional chefs' blades still come from here.
Sakai
Sakai Chusen Dyeing
Dye poured through stencilled paste so it soaks clean through - the cloth comes out identical on both faces.
OsakaArchitecture
OsakaArchitectureTondabayashi
Tondabayashi Jinaimachi
A self-governing town built around a temple, and the only preservation district in Osaka prefecture.
OsakaArt & CraftsFujiidera
Domyoji Tenmangu
Objects said to be Michizane's own are National Treasures; the district was home to the clan that made the haniwa.
OsakaMuseumsHigashiosaka
Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum
The writer's study left as it was, beside an eleven-metre wall of his own 20,000 books, built by Tadao Ando.
OsakaMuseumsTakatsuki
Imashirozuka Kofun
Thought to be an emperor's tomb; the ritual platform of house, human and animal figures was excavated and rebuilt in place.
OsakaArt & CraftsIzumi
Kuboso Memorial Museum
Founded on a cotton family's gift; its celadon vase and Heian manuscript are both National Treasures.
OsakaArt & CraftsKishiwada
Kishiwada Danjiri Festival
Four-tonne carts run at full speed and turned square at the corners, their zelkova bodies carved over every surface.
OsakaArchitectureToyonaka
Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouses
Japan's first open-air architecture museum, comparing farmhouse types from every region on one site.
OsakaArchitectureOsaka
Modern Architecture of Nakanoshima
A sandbar between two rivers dense with public buildings from Meiji to Showa - water and architecture forming the city's spine.
Osaka
Semba Modern Buildings
Small 1920s and 30s office blocks in the merchant quarter, faced in Art Deco and even Mayan-revival ornament.
OsakaArchitectureOsaka
Karahori District
A quarter spared by the bombing, its wooden row houses and alleys now being converted into shops and galleries.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
National Bunraku Theatre
Home of the puppet theatre born in Osaka; each head is carved by a specialist and repaired down the generations.
OsakaArchitectureOsaka
Bridges of Osaka
A city of canals and bridges, many of them built at merchants' own expense - their names still carry those origins.
OsakaArt & CraftsSakai
Incense of Sakai
Incense making began where the aromatic woods landed; blending and forming are still separate trades.
OsakaArchitectureHirakata
Hirakata-juku
Where the river traffic met the highway; the old boatmen's inn survives as a museum.
OsakaArchitectureIkeda
Garden Suburbs of Ikeda
Japan's first estate of houses sold to commuters - the model on which railway companies built the suburbs.
OsakaArchitectureKishiwada
Kishiwada Castle
Shigemori Mirei laid a dry garden in the keep's yard, its stones arranged as the battle formations of a Chinese strategist.
OsakaContemporary ArtSakai
Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group
Forty-nine tombs across two plateaus; that the keyhole shape held for over two centuries shows how tightly form was controlled.
OsakaArchitectureOsaka
Keitakuen Garden
By Ogawa Jihei, who defined the modern Japanese garden - hidden behind the city art museum.
OsakaArchitectureOsaka
Shopfront Design of Osaka
Giant three-dimensional signs - a crab, a pufferfish, an octopus - built out over the street as the city's own visual idiom.
OsakaArchitectureOsaka
Osaka Aquarium and Modern Architecture
Visitors spiral downward past the tanks - a building where the route itself decides the order of what you see.
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